1993 in the United States

1993 in the United States
Events from the year 1993 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: George H. W. Bush (R-Texas) (until January 20), Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) (starting January 20)
Vice President: Dan Quayle (R-Indiana) (until January 20), Al Gore (D-Tennessee) (starting January 20)
Chief Justice: William Rehnquist (Wisconsin)
Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tom Foley (D-Washington)
Senate Majority Leader: George J. Mitchell the 45th
Congress: 102nd (until January 3), 103rd (starting January 3)
Events
January
January 3 – In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
January 5
The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
$7,400,000 USD is stolen from Brinks Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York in the fifth-largest robbery in U.S. history. Four men, Samuel Millar, Father Patrick Moloney, former Rochester Police officer Thomas O'Connor, and Charles McCormick, all of whom have ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, are accused.
January 19
IBM announces a $4,970,000,000 loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately forty Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States, and Al Gore is sworn in as the 45th vice president.
January 25 – Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
January 31 – Super Bowl XXVII: The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose three consecutive Super Bowls as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52–17.
February
February 6 – Former tennis player Arthur Ashe, 49, dies of complications due to HIV in New York. Ashe was believed to have contracted the virus from a blood transfusion during a heart surgery ten years earlier.
February 8 – General Motors Corporation sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged two crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the following day.
February 11 – Janet Reno is selected by President Clinton as Attorney General of the United States.
February 26 – 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over 1,000.
February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidian followers die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
March
March 1-April 28 – An outbreak of Cryptosporidium protozoan affects Milwaukee, Wisconsin, infecting over 400,000 people, hospitalizing over 4,000, and killing at least 100, making it the largest waterborne disease outbreak in United States history.
March 1 - The NFL introduces its current free agent system.
March 4 – Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh.
March 9 – Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating his civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
March 13–14 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern United States, bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; the storm kills 318 people.
March 22 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips.
March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven winning four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Both the film and James Ivory's Howards End lead the nominations with nine each. The telecast garners 45.7 million viewers.
April
April–May – A virus strikes the Four Corners, killing at least 13 people.
April–October: The Great Flood of 1993: The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.
April 2 – The Adventures of Huck Finn, directed by Stephen Sommers and based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel of the same name, is released in theaters.
April 9 – The rock band Nirvana plays a benefit concert for rape victims in war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina at San Francisco's Cow Palace.
April 13 – The Kuwaiti government claims to uncover an Iraqi assassination plot against former U.S. President George H. W. Bush shortly after his visit to Kuwait. Two Iraqi nationals confess to driving a car bomb into Kuwait on behalf of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
April 19 – A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
April 28 – An executive order is issued requiring the United States Air Force to allow women to fly war planes.
May
May 1 – An outbreak of a respiratory illness later identified as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome begins in the southwestern United States; 32 patients die by the end of the year.
May 3 – Rio Grande City in Texas officially incorporates into a city.
May 5 – The West Memphis Three are three men who – while teenagers – were tried and convicted, in 1994, of the May 5, 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a Satanic ritual.
May 20 – President Bill Clinton signs the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 into federal law.
June
June 5 – Minnesota v. Dickerson: The United States Supreme Court rules that the seizure of evidence during a pat-down search is constitutional.
June 9 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 24th Stanley Cup, defeating the Los Angeles Kings in the Finals.
June 11 – Jurassic Park, directed by Steven Spielberg, is released in theaters as the first film in the Jurassic Park saga.
June 20 – John Paxson's 3-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99–98 win over the Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
June 24 – A Unabomber bomb injures computer scientist David Gelernter at Yale University.
June 27 – U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
July
July 1 – Gian Ferri kills eight and injures six before committing suicide at a law firm in San Francisco, sparking new legislative actions for gun control.
July 19 – U.S. President Bill Clinton announces his 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy regarding homosexuals serving in the American military.
July 15 – 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson: Evan Chandler institutes legal accusations against singer Michael Jackson of sexually molesting Jordan Chandler, Evan's 13-year-old son.
July 20 – White House deputy counsel Vince Foster dies by suicide in Virginia.
July 25 – Greg Nicholson, his girlfriend and her two young daughters are murdered in Iowa by Dustin Honken and Angela Johnson. Nicholson was due to testify against Honken in court in relation to his drug activities.
July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.
August
August 1 – The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
August 4 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
August 10
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
World Youth Day 1993 in Denver, Colorado.
August 21 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
August 28 – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the first Power Rangers entry, debuts on Fox Kids.
September
September 4 – The second World Parliament of Religions is held in Chicago.
September 6 – Canadian software specialist Peter de Jager publishes an article titled "Doomsday 2000" in the U.S. weekly magazine Computerworld, which is the first known reference to Y2K – the Year 2000 problem.
September 10 – Bill Nye the Science Guy first airs in syndication.
September 13
PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D.C., after signing a peace accord.
Animaniacs makes its debut on Fox Kids.
September 18 – Rocko's Modern Life makes its debut on Nickelodeon, becoming the network's fourth "Nicktoon" in the line-up.
September 22 – Big Bayou Canot rail accident: An Amtrak Sunset Limited derails on a bridge which had been damaged by a barge near Mobile, Alabama. It is the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak's history.
October
October 3 – A large-scale battle erupts between U.S. forces and local militia in Mogadishu, Somalia; eighteen Americans and over 1,000 Somalis are killed.
October 8 – David Miscavige announces the IRS has granted full tax exemption to the Church of Scientology International and affiliated churches and organizations, ending the Church's 40-year battle with the IRS and resulting in religious recognition in the United States.
October 16 – U.S. President Bill Clinton sends six American warships to Haiti to enforce United Nations trade sanctions against their military-led regime.
October 25 – Actor Vincent Price dies of lung cancer.
October 27 – Wildfires begin in California, which eventually destroy over and 700 homes.
October 31 – Actor River Phoenix dies of drug-induced heart failure on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room.
November
November 11 – Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to manufacturing.
November 16 – President Bill Clinton signs the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 into federal law.
November 18 – In a status referendum, Puerto Rico residents vote with a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth status.
November 17–22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
November 18 – The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation opens in Seattle.
November 20 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
November 22 – TV Food Network makes its debut.
November 30 – President Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a background check.
December
December
The unemployment rate falls to 6.5%, the lowest since January 1991.
ProCharger, an automotive aftermarket manufacturer is founded in Kansas.
December 2 – STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
December 7
Colin Ferguson opens fire with his Ruger 9 mm pistol on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing six and injuring 29.
Avi Arad founds Marvel Studios.
December 11 – A variety of Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US$6,800,000. One of the items is Lunokhod 1 and its spacecraft Luna 17; they sell for $68,500.
Ongoing
Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)
Undated
Rufus King, an alternative rock band from California is formed.
Sport
February 23 - Sacramento Gold Miners are established as the First American franchise in the Canadian Football League
The Colorado Rockies and the Miami Marlins become baseball teams.
Births
January
January 3 – Kevin Ware, basketball player
January 5 – De'Anthony Thomas, American football player
January 8 – Brooke Greenberg, woman with rare slow-aging condition (d. 2013)
January 9
Ashley Argota, actress
Marcus Peters, American football player
January 13 – Tyler Barnhardt, actor
January 15 – Wil Trapp, soccer player
January 18 – Morgan York, actress
January 19 – Zyon Cavalera drummer
January 27 – Joe Landolina, inventor and entrepreneur
January 29 – Lewis Pullman, actor
February
February 2 – Karsta Lowe, volleyball player
February 3 – Brandon Micheal Hall, actor
February 7 – David Dorfman, actor
February 12
Taylor Dearden, actress
Sam Kazemian, Iranian-American software programmer, co-founder of Everipedia
Jennifer Stone, actress
February 14
Shane Harper, actor and singer
Alberto Rosende, actor
February 18
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, basketball player
Unbridled's Song, thoroughbred horse, winner of Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1995) (d. 2013)
February 19
Patrick Johnson, actor
Victoria Justice, actress and singer
February 25 – Timmy Hill, race car driver
February 27 – Jessica Korda, golfer
March
March 3 – Nicole Gibbs, tennis player
March 4
Jenna Boyd, actress
Abigail Mavity, actress
March 5 – Josh Briggs, pro wrestler
March 7 – Alex Broadhurst, ice hockey player
March 10 – Peniel Shin, rapper and dancer (BTOB)
March 11 – Anthony Davis, basketball player
March 16 – Tucker Boner, YouTuber and twitch streamer
March 29 – Joe Adler, actor
April
April 2 – Aaron Kelly, singer
April 10 – Sofia Carson, actress and singer
April 12
Dorial Green-Beckham, American football player
Katelyn Pippy, actress
April 13 – Hannah Marks, actress
April 14
Vivien Cardone, actress
Kent Jones, rapper
Graham Phillips, actor
Ellington Ratliff, singer and actor
Burnell Taylor, singer
April 15 – Madeleine Martin, television and voice actress
April 16
Mirai Nagasu, figure skater
Chance The Rapper, singer/songwriter
April 25 – Alex Bowman, race car driver
May
May 2 – Jarred Brooks, mixed martial artist and current ONE Strawweright World Champion
May 6 – Alex Preston, singer
May 10
Spencer Fox, actor, musician, and singer
Halston Sage, actress
May 13 – Debby Ryan, actress and singer
May 14 – Miranda Cosgrove, actress and singer
May 18 – Kyle, rapper
May 19 – Daisy Mallory, country singer
May 20 – Caroline Zhang, figure skater
May 21 – Laura Loomer, Alt-right politician
May 23
Andy Janovich, American football player
Stephon Tuitt, American football player
June
June 1 – Sam Anas, ice hockey player
June 4 – Adam Saleh, YouTuber
June 5 – Tyre Nichols, victim of police brutality (died 2023)
June 6 – Vic Mensa, rapper
June 7
Swae Lee, singer, rapper and songwriter
Amanda Leighton, actress
June 14
Gunna, rapper
Ryan McCartan, actor and singer
Sammy Watkins, American football player
June 21 – Hungrybox, esports athlete
June 22
Caydee Denney, pair skater
Izzy Miller, musician
June 26 – Ariana Grande, actress and singer
June 29
Lorenzo James Henrie, actor
Oliver Tree, singer, record producer, director and comedian
July
July 1 – Raini Rodriguez, actress and singer
July 2 – Saweetie, rapper
July 5 – Hollie Cavanagh, British-American singer
July 7
Ally Brooke, singer
Jackson Withrow, tennis player
July 9
Bret Loehr, actor
DeAndre Yedlin, soccer player
July 10 – Carlon Jeffery, actor
July 18 – Casey Veggies, rapper and songwriter
July 21 – Aaron Durley, baseball player
July 23 – Lili Simmons, actress and model
July 26
Elizabeth Gillies, actress and singer
Taylor Momsen, actress, musician, and model
July 28
Sammy Guevara, pro wrestler
La'Porsha Renae, singer
July 29 – Dak Prescott, American football player
August
August 2 – Manika, singer-songwriter
August 3 – Thomas Rawls, American football player
August 7 – Francesca Eastwood, actress, model, and socialite
August 9 – Rydel Lynch, singer and actress
August 11 – Alyson Stoner, actress, dancer, and singer
August 13 – Kevin Cordes, swimmer
August 20 – MK Nobilette, singer
August 22 – Dillon Danis, martial artist
August 26 – Keke Palmer, actress and singer
August 28 – Cody Frost, artist, tiger, hunk
August 29 – Lucas Cruikshank, actor and YouTube personality
September
September 1 – Megan Nicole, singer-songwriter
September 5 – Gage Golightly, actress
September 6 – Famous Dex, rapper
September 7 – Taylor Gray, actor and model
September 9 – Brian Pillman Jr., professional wrestler
September 10 – Sarah Logan, professional wrestler
September 11 – Farrah Moan, drag queen and entertainer
September 12 – Kelsea Ballerini, singer-songwriter
September 14
Ashley Caldwell, freestyle skier
Blaire White, transgender YouTuber
September 16
Metro Boomin, record producer, songwriter, and DJ
Bryson DeChambeau, golfer
September 18 – Patrick Schwarzenegger, actor and model
September 23 – Duke Johnson, American football player
September 24
Sonya Deville, professional wrestler
Ben Platt, actor and singer
September 25 – Zach Tyler Eisen, voice actor
September 30 – Cameron Grimes, pro wrestler
October
October 2 – Tara Lynne Barr, actress
October 6
Angus T. Jones, actor
Jourdan Miller, actress
Molly Quinn, actress
October 8 – Saucy Santana, rapper
October 9
Lauren Davis, tennis player
Scotty McCreery, singer-songwriter and guitarist
October 11 – Brandon Flynn, actor
October 13 – Tiffany Trump, socialite and model
October 14 – Charlie Kirk, conservative commentator
October 17 – Witney Carson, dancer and choreographer
October 19 – Hunter King, actress
October 22
Josiah Jones, filmmaker
Omer Adam, Israeli singer
October 23 – Taylor Spreitler, actress
October 26 – Drew Gooden, comedian
October 27 – Troy Gentile, actor
October 30 – Marcus Mariota, American football player
November
November 3 – Benito Skinner, online personality
November 9 – Steven Taylor, cricketer
November 12 – Mackensie Alexander, American football player
November 16 – Pete Davidson, comedian
November 27
Hannah Brandt, ice hockey player
Aubrey Peeples, actress and singer
November 28
Shiann Darkangelo, ice hockey player
Bryshere Y. Gray, actor and rapper
November 29
Stefon Diggs, American football player
David Lambert, actor
November 30 – Kevon Seymour, American football player
December
December 1 – Drakeo the Ruler, rapper (died 2021)
December 2
Amouranth, internet personality
Dylan McLaughlin, actor
December 3 – Marques Brownlee, YouTuber
December 7 – Jasmine Villegas, singer
December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, actress
December 10 – Joey Salads, YouTuber
December 11 – Sonny Kiss, pro wrestler
December 18
Byron Buxton, baseball player
John Cihangir, actor, stuntman and YouTuber
December 19 – Corey Snide, actor and dancer
December 21 – Jinger Vuolo, author
December 22
Ali Lohan, actress and model
Meghan Trainor, singer
December 25 – Andrea Drews, volleyball player
December 31 – Ryan Blaney, race car driver
Date unknown
David Benoit, pro wrestler and son of Chris Benoit
Deaths
January
January 1
Eddie Arning, American farming community (b. 1898)
Jean Mayer, French-born American scientist (b. 1920)
January 3
Johnny Most, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
Will Walls, American football player and coach (b. 1912)
January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician, bandleader, singer and composer (b. 1917)
January 10
Diana Adams, American ballet dancer (b. 1926)
Luther Gulick, expert on public administration (b. 1892)
January 15
Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913)
Henry Iba, American basketball coach and college athletics administrator (b. 1904)
January 16
Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
Freddie 'Red' Cochrane, American boxer; welterweight champion between 1941 and 1946 (b. 1915)
Stan Sheriff, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator (b. 1932)
January 19
Reginald Lewis, American businessman (b. 1942)
Chris Street, American college basketball player (b. 1972)
January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (b. 1929)
January 21 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
January 22 – Jim Pollard, American professional basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
January 23
Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician (b. 1899)
Keith Laumer, American science fiction author (b. 1925)
January 24 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, First African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
January 25 – Bernard Joseph Smith, American marathon runner; winner of the 1942 Boston Marathon (b. 1917)
January 27 – J. T. King, American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator (b. 1912)
January 28 – Vern Kennedy, American MLB pitcher (b. 1907)
January 29
Gustav Hasford, American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief (b. 1947)
Ron Kostelnik, American football player in the National Football League (b. 1940)
February
February 5 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
February 7 – Buddy Pepper, American songwriter and accompanist (b. 1922)
February 9 – Kate Wilkinson, American stage and television actress (b. 1916)
February 11
Joy Garrett, American actor and vocalist (b. 1945)
Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
February 23 – Phillip Terry, American actor (b. 1909)
February 25 – Eddie Constantine, American-born French actor and singer (b. 1917)
February 26 – Beaumont Newhall, American curator (b. 1908)
February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
February 28 – Ruby Keeler, American actress (b. 1909)
March
March 1 – Terry Frost, American actor (b. 1906)
March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906)
March 4 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch-born American chemist (b. 1894)
March 7
Duane Carter, American racing driver (b. 1913)
Whitey Kachan, American basketball player (b. 1925)
Eleanor Sanger, American television producer (b. 1929)
Jim Spavital, footballer (b. 1926)
Earl Wrightson, American singer and actor (b. 1913)
March 8
Don Barksdale, American basketball player (b. 1923)
Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
March 9 – Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (b. 1906)
March 16 – Ralph Fults, America outlaw (b. 1910)
March 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
March 20
Percy Johnston, African-American poet, playwright, and professor (b. 1930)
Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
Paul László, Hungarian-born architect (b. 1900)
March 22 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
March 23 – Tim Crews, American baseball player (b. 1961)
March 24 – John Hersey, American writer and journalist (b. 1914)
March 26 – Louis Falco, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1942)
March 27 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (b. 1893)
March 30 – Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b. 1922)
March 31
Brandon Lee, American actor and martial artist, son of Bruce Lee (b. 1965)
Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
April
April 1 – Alan Kulwicki, U.S. race car driver (b. 1954)
April 3
Peter J. De Muth, American politician (b. 1892)
Pinky Lee, American comedian (b. 1907)
April 8 – Marian Anderson, American singer (b. 1897)
April 13 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
April 19 – David Koresh, American spiritualist, leader of the Branch Davidian religious cult (b. 1959)
April 23 – Cesar Chavez, Mexican American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
April 26 – Julia Davis, American educator (b. 1891)
April 28 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player (b. 1946)
May
May 5 – Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)
May 7 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1902)
May 8
Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
Alwin Nikolais, American choreographer (b. 1912)
May 14 – William Randolph Hearst Jr., American businessman (b. 1908)
May 26 – Catherine Caradja, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist (b. 1893)
May 30 – Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)
June
June 2 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
June 6 – James Bridges, American screenwriter and director (b. 1936)
June 8 – Nolan Bailey Harmon, bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church (b. 1892)
June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (b. 1921)
June 10
Arleen Auger, American soprano singer (b. 1939)
Milward L. Simpson, American politician (b. 1897)
June 13 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (b. 1924)
June 15 – John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
June 19 – Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist (b. 1909)
June 22 – Pat Nixon, wife of Richard Nixon, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
June 24 – Archie Williams, American Olympic athlete (b. 1915)
June 26 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
June 28 – GG Allin, American musician (b. 1956)
June 30 – Spanky McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
July
July 2
Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
Elizabeth M. Ramsey, American research physician (b. 1906)
July 3
Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909)
July 4 – Anne Shirley, American actress (b. 1918)
July 7
William McElwee Miller, American missionary to Persia and author (b. 1892)
Mia Zapata, American punk musician (b. 1965)
July 12 – James Peck, American civil rights activist (b. 1914)
July 13 – Davey Allison, American stock car driver (b. 1961)
July 15 – David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
July 20 – Vince Foster, attorney (b. 1945)
July 24 – Abram L. Sachar, American historian and educator (b. 1899)
July 25
Nan Grey, American actress (b. 1918)
Cecilia Parker, American actress (b. 1914)
July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, American army general (b. 1895)
July 27 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
July 30
William Guglielmo Niederland, German-born American psychoanalyst (b. 1904)
Bob Wright, American baseball player (b. 1891)
July 31 – Paul B. Henry, American politician (b. 1942)
August
August 1 – Claire Du Brey, American actress (b. 1892)
August 3 – Theodore A. Parker III, American ornithologist (b. 1953)
August 7 – Christopher Gillis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
August 10 – Irene Sharaff, American costume designer (b. 1910)
August 16 – Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (b. 1913)
August 26 − Roy Raymond, American entrepreneur (b. 1947)
August 30 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1937)
September
September 2 – Eric Berry, British actor (b. 1913)
September 3 – Wesley Englehorn, American football player (b. 1890)
September 4 – Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor (b. 1943)
September 9 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
September 12
Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (b. 1917)
Charles Lamont, Russian-born film director (b. 1895)
September 13 – Steve Jordan, American jazz guitarist (b. 1919)
September 22
Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born American conductor (b. 1903)
Regina Fryxell, American composer (b. 1899)
September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer and World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1896)
September 28 – Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
September 29 – Gordon Douglas, American film director (b. 1907)
October
October 5 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
October 12 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)'
October 13 – Ruth Gilbert, American actress (b. 1912)
October 17 – Criss Oliva, American metal guitarist (b. 1963)
October 21 – James Leo Herlihy, American novelist and playwright (b. 1927)
October 25 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
October 26 – Harold Rome, American composer (b. 1908)
October 31 – River Phoenix, American actor, musician and activist (b. 1970)
November
November 1 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
November 6 – Ralph Randles Stewart, American botanist (b. 1890)
November 12
Bill Dickey, American baseball player (b. 1907)
H. R. Haldeman, 4th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
Anna Sten, Ukrainian-born American actress (b. 1908)
November 13 – Rufus R. Jones, American wrestler (b. 1933)
November 15 – Evelyn Venable, American actress (b. 1913)
November 20 – Emile Ardolino, American film director (b. 1943)
November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
November 24 – Albert Collins, African-American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1932)
November 28 – Garry Moore, American television host and comedian (b. 1915)
December
December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer (b. 1940)
December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
December 16
Charles Willard Moore, American architect (b. 1926)
Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
December 17 – Janet Margolin, American actress (b. 1943)
December 18 – Sam Wanamaker, American film director and actor (b. 1919)
December 19 – Michael Clarke, American musician (b. 1946)
December 20 – W. Edwards Deming, American engineer, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant (b. 1900)
December 21 – Gussie Nell Davis, American educator and founder of the Kilgore College Rangerettes (b. 1906)
December 22
Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1917)
Alexander Mackendrick, British-American film director (b. 1912)
December 23 – James Ellison, American actor (b. 1910)
December 24 – Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher and writer (b. 1898)
December 28
William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926)
December 31
Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972)
Thomas Watson Jr., American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
See also
1993 in American television
List of American films of 1993
Timeline of United States history (1990–2009)
References
External links
1990s in the United States
United States
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Years of the 20th century in the United States